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On 10/8/2013 20:08, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> There was a discussion around March 27, 2012, about another change
> in the behavior of RCS between 5.7 and 5.8.  It appears that someone
> decided to make some sweeping "improvements" to RCS and broke a few
> things along the way.

GNU rcs 5.7 was released in 1995.  rcs 5.8 didn't come out until 2011. 
So yeah, 16 years of changes in one jump.

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